Confused Why So Many Foreign Banks Are Suddenly Being Charged By The US? Here's Why

It's very simple really. Please point out where on the below list of Top 20 contributors to a randomly selected US politician, in this case New York's Chuck Schumer, can one find Standard Chartered, Barclays, or HSBC?

And there's your answer, which should also explain why banks such as Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, etc, will never be subject to the same kangaroo court in which suddenly everyone is shocked, shocked, that banks were manipulating Libor and laundering money or doing any other thing which bankers do day after day, every day.

All the best friends forever of the New York Branch of the Mother Whore Federal Reserve stand and salute the mad racketeering protection skills of one Honorable Chucky Schumer, the best Wall Street Prostitute/Poontang filthy money can buy.

He's ready to introduce legislation having Manhattan secede from the U.S. and be granted most favored whoredom of finance status.

Chuck says "fuck flyover country, bitchez. They're running out of wealth and assets to leech off of to props up my peeps! Sayonara, U.S.A."

ot, but.....working at home today...listening to 100.7 the bay in b-more...listened for about 6 hours....without exaggeration....85-90% of ads were either directly from the gubmint...or in cahoots with the ad council....ie...the association of cpa's and the ad council...or the library of congress and the ad council...so i ask my self....have private ads dried up...or has the gubmint bought up all ad time and there is no more time available for private...the propaganda topics were...college degree and making 400k more than the dumb asses...how to save energy...joining the military...health...library...depositing money in the bank....and a few others....so if any other radio listeners are out there...see if you notice the same...so the gubmint buys cars to make the auto industry look good...they buy ad space to make them look good, the stock market and that looks good...the food stamps...wal-mart looks good... t-bills....they look safe ...and on and on and on...now back to our regular programming.....

All the best friends forever of the New York Branch of the Mother Whore Federal Reserve stand and salute the mad racketeering protection skills of one Honorable Chucky Schumer, the best Wall Street Prostitute/Poontang filthy money can buy.

Sadly, in time, after so many Americans have been lied to, dispossessed, mistreated and then insulted they will turn to the old scapegoat - 'The Jews" to otherwise blame for EVERYTHING.

They will see "The Jews" in the media, the banks, the courts, the politicians, the lobbyists, the white collar crime, the fake war on terror, the police state, the Federal Reserve and all its tricks, the Obamacare with no doctors, the TSA, body-scanners, drones and checkpoints and gun-grabbing and Obama's Indonesian citizenship and its concealment all stemming from age old stereotypes used again and again across continents to conveniently blame a group of people - and they will go berserk.

In 1929, the Crash. By 1931, Germany's biggest bank was gone. By 1933 Hitler came to power. People forget than Germany was the height of science and philosophy at the time, yet de-evolved into Nazism. History tends to repeat itself.

S'truth. If there weren't so many goyim selling themselves to the Jews, the Jews would be powerless. Jewbullshit - from Zionist wars to State Socialism - walks because JewMoney talks. Meyer Anselm said it all.

"The estimated price tag for the US elections in November is almost $6bn (£3.8bn)."

"It makes UK election spending look microscopic by comparison. A total of £31m ($49m) was spent by all parties in the last general election in the UK two years ago - making US spending 120 times as much, and 23 times as much per person."

Twice within the last week I was enjoying conversation in a very ZH vein with some folks who, about 7 to 10 years ago were telling me I was a fucknut Conspiracy Theorist and about 3 years ago starting to pay heed who I think are now clearly in the conversion process... described me as a cynical realist.

Like I'm fond of saying; eventually all conspiracy theories are proved correct.

Should they fully awake, they'll soon see the "cynical" as an oxymoronic term of endearment to Realist

My family was just talking about this sort of thing on the Fourth of July. My son say's...Mom what are you.an optimist or a pessimist?

She said...an optimist. He say's well I know Dad's a pessimist.

I eye-balled him in the rear view mirror, smiled and said...well...one thing about a pessimist is, he's never ever disappointed in outcomes but its a heckuva way to go through life expecting the worst...lol.

No son, I'm just cynical through many years of trial, error and observation, I still hold out hope for people and things in general, love you guys with every fiber of my being...but in the end...I am a cynical realist.

Only 6 and you haven't strapped him into a chair and explained to him to be most wary of people that offer you things for free; because nothing is free you just don't always know the cost or partiular currency.

Long time old friend...where the hell you been? Last time I seen you check in it was from a beach...you dog ;-)

"I'm also trying to reverse the "If I only knew then what I know now" concept with him. That one isn't going so well. He's only 6, so I figure I have time."

Boy howdy...lol.

My son is thirteen now and I started on him about where you are now and I "think" its starting to sink in. Your's will be gettin some feed back from peers pretty soon so keep a sharp eye/ear out for correction...idiocy comes from just about every direction.

I can't tell mine everything about my past and how I know but he's startin to put it all together on his own...which is enough, for now.

Sorry for the late response, I've been absorbed with trying to find a motorcycle safety class close by me the last hour or so.

Apparently, in my state governments infinite wisdom, they decided in 2008 that one needs to pay a third party 160-200 bucks to prove one can legally operate a motorcycle on public roads in Fla...even though I owned several and rode them with complete abandon to my life & limb in my youth...as if I won't now at 52 after taking a stupid safety course by a 30yr old ;-)